SPHERE explores themes of identity and belonging: how do such alignments and affiliations survive (or not) the socio-economic changes that accompany restructuring and the broader political and demographic remodelling of Europe’s cultural landscapes? Its multidisciplinary anal...

This research is a contribution to the comparative cultural sociology of contemporary European society. The aim of the research is to examine the role of festivals as sites of trans-national identifications and democratic debate. Analytically, the project objectives are to: (...

The objective of MITRA is to prototype a new operational system based on regional responsibilities for the monitoring of dangerous goods transportation in Europe. This concept, derived from the Air Traffic Control domain, aims at providing the Civil Security centres with a re...

Shipping is a key international industry; 95% of the world cargo is moved by ship corresponding to over 200 million containers per year exchanged between major seaports. This huge movement leads to a risk that a container could be used by a terrorist group. As a result, the m...

OASIS is an Integrated Project (IP) focused on Emergency and Disaster Management. Conducted over 48 months, OASIS aims to define a generic crisis management system to support the response and rescue operations in the case of large scale as well as local emergencies subse...

This project is devoted to the development of test suites for the EGEE-II SA3 middleware certification, in particular in purposes of the LHC Computing Grid project. The certification is aimed to verify that the middleware handed over for deployment provides all the functionali...

The proposed project deals with two main products from winery wastes recovery: Grape Seed Tannins (GST) and Tartaric Acid (TA). Both are highly valuable products of significant importance in the industry already. For recovery of GST, the main by-product of wine processing is p...

Gossypol and its derivatives are active compounds due to their high interferon inducing ability in organisms. Using existing technologies, it is not possible to obtain gossypol in a native enantiomer form, which hinders its use in pharmaceutical industries. The main objective ...

We propose to design and to implement a toolkit to develop interfaces for symbolic computation systems (the Toolkit) that will use modern software technologies and provide automated creation of the necessary interface. The Toolkit is supposed to consist of several Java package...

This research combines qualitative and quantiative methods to examine the impact of the transformation in Moldova on young people aged 16 to 30 years. Since 1991 Moldva has experenced a dramatic decline in economic and social well being becoming by far the poorest country in E...